<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr> U.S. Soldier Sentenced to Prison in Iraq Abuse Trial<p>By Anthony Deutsch Associated Press Writer Wednesday, May 19, 2004; 8:44 AM<p>BAGHDAD -- Specialist Jeremy Sivits, the first U.S. soldier court-martialled over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners in Iraq, received on Wedneday the maximum penalty of one year in prison, a reduction in rank and a bad conduct discharge. Sivits, who took pictures of naked Iraqi prisoners being humiliated at Abu Ghraib prison, pleaded guilty earlier in the day. He told the court he saw one U.S. soldier punch one Iraqi in the head and other guards stomp on the hands and feet of detainees. He also recounted that prisoners were stripped and forced to form a human pyramid.<p>Expected to get a relatively light sentence and then testify against others, Sivits was found guilty of mistreating detainees, dereliction of duty for failing to protect them from abuse, cruelty and forcing a prisoner "to be positioned in a pile on the floor to be assaulted by other soldiers."<p>Sivits, 24, could face up to one year in jail, reduction in rank, loss of pay and a bad conduct discharge. <hr></blockquote>(from the Washington Post online edition)<p>One must assume the on-again-off-again sentence is a form of psychological torture...<p>(And I really dislike "received on Wednesday". It's clunky.)<p>D.<p>[ May 19, 2004: Message edited by: DominEditrix ]</p>
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